eBay (EBAY) Stock Forecast, Price & News

18 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for eBay in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 11 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" EBAY shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in EBAY, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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18 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for eBay's stock. Their EBAY share price forecasts range from $33.00 to $60.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $49.29 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 12.3% from the stock's current price.
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eBay's stock was trading at $41.47 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, EBAY stock has increased by 5.8% and is now trading at $43.87.
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eBay saw a increase in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 17,550,000 shares, an increase of 7.2% from the August 15th total of 16,370,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 5,170,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.4 days. Currently, 3.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 1st 2023.
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eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July, 26th. The e-commerce company reported $1.03 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.99 by $0.04. The e-commerce company earned $2.54 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.51 billion. eBay had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 34.71% and a net margin of 13.49%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 4.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.80 earnings per share.
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eBay announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, July 24th. Investors of record on Friday, September 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share on Friday, September 15th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.28%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 31st.
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ETFs with the largest weight of eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) stock in their portfolio include ProShares Online Retail ETF (ONLN), ProShares Long Online/Short Stores ETF (CLIX), Global X E-Commerce ETF (EBIZ), Global X Millennial Consumer ETF (MILN), First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund (FDN), IQ U.S. Mid Cap R&D Leaders ETF (MRND), Emerge EMPWR Sustainable Global Core Equity ETF (EMZA) and Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary ETF (RCD).

eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.32%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 4 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 40.49%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, EBAY will have a dividend payout ratio of 27.93% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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eBay issued an update on its third quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Wednesday, July, 26th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.96-$1.01 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.92. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.46 billion-$2.52 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.23 billion.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other eBay investors own include Intel (INTC), Netflix (NFLX), NVIDIA (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), PayPal (PYPL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Alibaba Group (BABA), Walt Disney (DIS), Micron Technology (MU) and Starbucks (SBUX).

eBay trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "EBAY."

eBay's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (9.34%), State Street Corp (4.36%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.21%), Nordea Investment Management AB (2.03%), Independent Franchise Partners LLP (1.98%) and Mirova US LLC (1.65%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew John Cring, Anthony John Bates, Brian J Doerger, Brian J Doerger, Cornelius Boone, Edward O Garcia, Kathleen C Mitic, Logan Green, Marie Oh Huber, Pete Thompson, Rebecca Spencer, Robert Holmes Swan and Wendy Elizabeth Jones.
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Shares of EBAY stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of EBAY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $43.87.

eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) has a market capitalization of $23.35 billion and generates $9.80 billion in revenue each year. The e-commerce company earns $-1,269,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $2.47 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 11,600 workers across the globe.

eBay's mailing address is 2025 HAMILTON AVENUE, SAN JOSE CA, 95125. The official website for the company is www.ebay.com. The e-commerce company can be reached via phone at (408) 376-7008, via email at ir@ebay.com, or via fax at 408-376-6200.